The Japanese situation around the 3rd century
"GISI WAJINN DEN."
This is the reference of China about Japan around the 3rd century. Empire of Chinese that time King KAN: (BC 206-220) King GI: (220-265) It is King ZUI: (581-619). In Europe, it is the time of the Roman Empire.
The messenger came for the time of King GI: (220-265) to Japan, and the position of countries, politics, customs, a product, history, etc. are described.
Japan is in the open sea of the method southeast of a belt. Japan is an island country in a mountainous country, and Japanese people are living in such a country.
A long time ago, the about 100 country had given a tribute to the time of Chinese KAN from Japan.30 countries have given a tribute to Chinese GI now.
From TAIHOU, the method of going to the place of the queen HIMIKO of the YABATAI country in Japan carries out line going south of along the South Korean seashore by ship, and goes. It arrives in the seashore KUNA country of a South Korean north direction in about 840km of distance.
The Sea of Japan is crossed from a KUNA country. It arrives in the TUSIMA country in Japan by about 120km.
The deputy official HIKU of TUSIMA and the vice-deputy official HINAMORI talked like the next. TUSIMA is the solitary island of about 48km of circumferences.
It seems to be the animal trail where the mountain of land is steep, woods are deep, and a deer and a beast pass along a road narrowly.
There are about 1000 residences. There is no good rice field suitable for the rice crop, and food is using marine products as the staple food.
The life is performed in trade with the Korean Peninsula, Iki, and Kitakyushu.
Next, Tsushima Strait is crossed. It arrives in an ITIDAI country (Iki) by about 120km.
In order for the deputy official HIKU of ITIDAI country and the vice-deputy official HINAMORI to talk, they are a bamboo, trees, and an island with many woods in about 36km of circumferences.
Although there is a few, since the good rice fields suitable for the rice crop run short, it has permitted that the residents of 3000 houses live.
The life is performed in trade with the Korean Peninsula or Kitakyushu.
Next, the Iki water service is crossed. It arrives in a MATURO country by about 60km.
The residents of about 4000 houses are in a MATURO country. Grass and the tree are growing luxuriantly, so that those who walk along a front are not seen, if it lands from a beach.
People went also in the shallow sea or the deep sea underwater, and have taken a fish and shellfish.
If you walk about 60km southeast from a MATURO country, it will arrive in the target ITO country.
In order for a deputy official and a vice-deputy official to say, the king's of those with about 1000 houses and the Ito country which continued several generation house surrounded with the ditch or the wall is in an ITO country.
The government official of queen direct control resided permanently, and the ITO country has gone and attributed between queens at the politics of WA country (Japan), and the center of diplomacy.
(from the Ito country) NA country is southeast located by 12km.There are residents of about 20,000 houses.
(from the Ito country) A FUYA country is east by 12km.There are residents of about 1000 houses.
(from the Ito country) There will be a TOUMA country south by ship in the place on the 20th.There are residents of about 50,000 houses.
(Ito country) A YABADAI country is south immediately, he will walk by ship from RAKUYOU of GI for ten days, and it is a place for one month.
The office and rank of a YABADAI country are ISIMA, HIYABASOU, HIYABAKAKUSI, and HIYATUKO (interpreter).
As for the residents of WA country which@Queen Himiko rules, the residents of about 70,000 house are north from a YABDAI country.It does not know that the number of houses of each country and distance are far, and it is detailed.
The names of countries are a SIMA country, a MIHIYAKUSI country, an IYA country, a TOSI country, a YANA country, a SUKOTO country, a FUYOBI country, a NEIYA country, a TAISO country, a SONA country, a YOPAKAYASOYS country, KI country, an IGO country, a KINA country, a YABA country, a KIYUSI country, a MIRI country, a SII country, a UNA country, NA country, and countries that Queen Himiko is governing [ these ].
A KUNA country is south from a YABADAI country. The king is a male and a deputy official is KUKOTI. YABADAI is not followed.
From GI country (China) to Queen Himiko's country (YABADAI), it is about 1500km.
In WA country, boys are all. Even the child is making tattoo a face and the body from ancient times from the adult.
The deputy official has given his name in the government post name of TAYUU in YABADAI.
It seems that the reason same with cutting the hair short in order that King SIYOYKOU of KA country of Chinese EKEI may avoid the damage of a dragon, and carrying out tattoo is carrying out tattoo.
The fisherman of WA country dives, and extracts a fish and shellfish, and a big fishbone, the feather of a duck, etc. are used for the ornament of the body.
There is a difference in the method of tattoo of countries also at the left, the right, size, smallness, and a status.
The direction of WA country hits east from the ground of EKEI.
A boy's dress is put in order.It is wearing applying it to the head.
Clothes have not carried out sewing only by making the large cloth of breadth join.
The woman is bending hair.Clothes open a hole in the center of one cloth, and it is worn flatly and they are wearing it.
A rice and hemp are grown.Sericulture is performed and textiles and silk fabrics of fine meshed hemp are made.
A cow, a horse, a tiger, a leopard, the sheep, and a crow are not in WA country.
A soldier's arms are arms, a shield, and wood bow. The bottom is short and the top of wood bow is long.
The tip of the arrow of a bamboo is iron or a product made from a bone.
WA country is warm as well as TANJI and SIYUGAI (county name of Hainan Dao), and is eating fresh vegetables in winter as well as summer.
All WA countries walk with bare feet. The room is located in a house. A parents brother's bedroom is another.
It will be the same as applying the powder for makeup in China to apply red paints to the body.
Eat Beans for snacks.
Although there is a coffin in a funeral, there is no outside box into which a coffin is put. A mound is built.
After dying, meat is not eaten for about ten days, but a chief mourner screams. Others sing and dance, and drink alcohol and the man's virtuous deed is applauded.
After burial finishes, all the families purify underwater. It seems to be purification ceremony.
When crossing the sea and going to RAKUYOU, hair is not liked, but clothes become dirty with dirt and one shining person with a louse is surely in them.
The woman who does not eat meat is made to approach a side, and it twists, and is carrying out just like mourning people. This man is called JISAI.
A slave and treasure are passed if a travel is good. It will kill, if illness and a thief are suited in the middle of a trip.
JISAI always becomes it tense.
WA country produces a pearl and jade and there is TAN (red paints) in a mountain.
As for trees, an ume tree, an japanese cypress, Japanese oak tree, an japanese cedar, an oak, a chinquapin, a mulberry, a cherry, and a mapleA exist.
About five kinds of different forms are growing the bamboo.
It does not know being eaten, although there are ginger, a mandarin orange, prickly ash, and another Japanese ginger.
There are a large monkey and a pheasant.B
If it wavers in judgment when performing politics, a bone will be burned, fortune-telling will be performed and fortune will be divined now.First, the reason which acts as fortune-telling is told.
And a tortoise shell is burned for fortune-telling.
When it burns, the crack of the made tortoise shell is seen and divined.
At the hall which tells fortune-telling, there is no distinction of parent-and-child man and woman, it sat down scatteringly, alcohol was drunk, and it has left scatteringly.
In a noble man's place, a hand is struck and respected instead of kneeling down and worshipping.
People's life is 100 years or 80 to 90 years.
The governing classes' man has 4-5 wives, and general class is also in 2-3 wives.
A wife does not have an affair and does not do jealousy, either. There are also few thieves, and they do not become empty and have a lawsuit, either.
When the law is violated, it is light and is wife-and-children confiscation. It is heavy and the house mansion and whole family are massacred.
There is the class system and the government official is trusted.
There is a warehouse which keeps a tax.
There is a market in countries and various things are dealt with.
DAIWA (executive name ?) is superintending these.
Criminal investigation especially of an executive called ITIDAISOTU is placed and carried out from a YABADAI country to the countries of the north side.
ITIDAISOTU is feared.
The Ito country has governed the countries of Japan. It seems to be the governor of a province.
When the king of a YABADAI country gives a messenger to the countries of RAKUYOU, a TAIHOU county, and South Korea, Himiko always hands a messenger the elegance of a message or a tribute himself.
If residents suit a deputy official by the road, a way is avoided, the body will be made small, or a knee will be attached, both hands will be attached, and it will bow.
The voice of correspondence calls it (AA) and is understanding.
In WA country, although the boy was before made into the king for 70 - 80 years, the argument which always scrambles for an enemy's castle and position between countries did not cease.
Therefore, it was decided that it consulted among countries and one woman was made into a king.
A name is Himiko and is those who are engaged in the festival using KIDOU (magic).
Himiko's height is high, he understands reason well, and there is no husband.There is younger man and government is assisted.
Those to whom Himiko inaugurated as the king can carry out the direct meeting of close attendants' woman every 1000 people are restricted.
Since one boy merely obtains words at the time of a meal, it has called.
A royal palace plots a many-storied building and a fence severely, and the soldier is always guarding it.
When the sea is crossed to the east of WA country about 120km, there is a country of the again same race as WA country.
There is a country of the south in which people with a height of 67cm - 90cm live about 360km ahead.
When it will go to southeast by ship again for one year, there are a country which is living naked, and a country of people which is dyeing the tooth black.
Some places in the sea are dotted with WA country, it can be separated in 600km of circumferences, or it can call it the countries connected continuously.
Queen Himiko of WA country dispatched the government official to TAIHOU, and offered to want to offer the king of GI in June, 238.
The director general RIYUKA of GI made the government official accompany, and took to the capital of GI, and RAKUYOU.
The answer reached Queen Himiko from the king of GI in December of the year.
The answer was writing first "It tells King WA Himiko a message from King GI". It was accompanied to the director general of TAIHOU by Himiko's government official, and he reached GIYURI of RAKUYOU.
23m of Azabu of four male engineers, six female engineers, and a striped pattern was received as a gift from Himiko.
Taking out and giving usage, although Himiko's place is far feels Tadayoshi to King GI of Himiko, and I think that I am pitiable.
Immediately, a gold seal is lent and given by setting Himiko to "intimate King GIWA."
It has a gold seal in the director general of TAIHOU, and is made to go.Himiko needs to console residents to render filial piety according to the life of grandparents or parents.
Himiko's government official came the place distant to GIYURI.
Immediately, it appoints as a government official of GIYURI.
It calls, trouble is appreciated, and a government official's silver mark is lent and given.
The following things are given from King GI to the tribute which Himiko presented.
The thing is carpet 10 curtain of 46m of textiles of Nishiki of the pattern of a dragon, and the woolen stuff which has a fine wrinkles pattern in the ground of crimson, 460m of silk fabrics of crimson, and 460m of silk fabrics of dark blue.
The following thing is specially given to Himiko. 28m of textiles of Nishiki where it smelled on a dark blue background, and the formal pattern was woven in, woolen stuff 5 curtain of an arabesque design, 460m of plain silk fabrics. 13kg of paints of the orange which wore two lots, 100 lead mirrors, 13kg of pearls, and the yellow taste for gold of 130g and a sword length of 120cm's was packed up, and it entrusted to Himiko's government official.
If usage returns from RAKUYOU, please receive as a specification, and show the man in Himiko's country all articles, and the country of GI needs to tell regarding Himiko's country as darling.
The thing good for Himiko's country was selected and presented carefully. It had written.
King GI dispatched the government official in 240. It was received in audience by King Himiko with the message and a government official's certificate.
King Himiko applied direct language to King GI's government official, he took in his hand himself, and gave gold, silk fabrics, the sword, and the mirror.
Himiko wrote the message in appreciation of King GI's favor, and asked usage.
Himiko made GI country give eight persons, such as government officials ISANGA and ISAKA, in 246.
Gifts were the textiles woven with the thread dyed by an engineer, and blue and red, silk fabrics, paints, and short bow and arrows.
A government official's certificate was given to eight persons of usage.
King GI lent the yellow army flag to the government official who came to LAKUYOU, and he gave Himiko's beginning in 248.
Himiko's government official came to the county public office of GI in 250, and told.Between king Himiko of WA country union, and the king HIMIYAKO of a KUNA country, it is dangerous and is attacking mutually.
This got across to King GI's place.
King GI gave three government officials the message, and in order to send the shape of a time which makes the argument between both stopped, he dispatched it to WA country together with the government official with yellow army flag.
The big mound of 100 steps was built with the straight line after Himiko's death.
As for the martyr, the domestic of man and woman exceeded 100 people.
Then, although the male king was looked up to, each country of WA union did not follow a new king, but 1000 or more persons were continuously killed for argument between the countries of Japan.
Therefore, Himiko's 13-year-old eldest daughter TYO was looked up to to the king.
TYO sent to the countries of Japan the shape of a time which stops argument. Then, the argument between states was subsided.
It was made to report that dispatched IYO to 20-person RAKUYO, such as a government official, and the argument of it between the political posture of WA and countries was lost.
Gifts are 30 man-and-woman engineers. 5000 crystal. Two big jade(s). 185m of textiles woven with the thread dyed by blue and red.
The above is the "GISI WAJINN DEN" whole sentence.
28 years old of Queen Himiko.
Queen Himiko is wearing the silk fabrics of vivid crimson or dark blue.
A kimono decent occasionally is worn.
Please imagine Queen Himiko's figure by you.
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